- UNC-Chapel Hill has received Florence Fearrington's collection of rare books on natural history, wunderkammern, and more.
- The Allegheny County D.A. has petitioned the judge who sentenced John Schulman and Gregory Priore to house arrest last week to reconsider and impose a stricter sentence, to include jail time (with home confinement until the judge is satisfied that a risk of COVID-19 infection in prison is diminished). Marylynne Pitz's piece about this includes comments from Travis McDade urging a "more appropriate sentence."
- Fentahun Tiruneh writes for the LC's blog about a recent addition to the LC's Ethiopian collection: the first printed edition of the New Testament in the Ge'ez language, printed at Rome in 1548.
- The Folger Shakespeare Library has acquired the collection of actor Earle Hyman.
- RIT scientists are developing a low-cost multispectral imaging hardware and software system!
- Early Modern Female Book Ownership highlights a 1526 Dutch Bible this week.
- Allie Alvis has started a YouTube series of "Bite Sized Book History" videos.
- Bogdan Horbal writes for the NYPL blog about the late nineteenth-century Riga bookseller N. Kymmel.
- Barbara Basbanes Richter highlights Mark Argetsinger's new book A Grammar of Typography: Classical Book Typography in the Digital Age.
- Jerry Morris posts about some books from his collection of books about the English language with interesting ownership marks.
- From the Bodleian's Conveyor blog, "Decades of manuscript photography on Digital.Bodleian."
- Over at Past is Present, a look at the beautiful new AAS conservation lab.
Upcoming Auctions
- Livres et Manuscrits at Sotheby's ends on 30 June.
- Curiosités Typographiques – Reliures Remarquables: Collection C. L. at Binoche et Giquello on 1 July.
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 2 July.
